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November 2015

November 10, 2015

These Three Things Are True

Sharp divisions make it hard to pinpoint "how Mormons feel" about the policy barring children...

November 08, 2015

Mistakes in Mormonism; or Why the Church Handbook isn’t Doctrine

By Gary Ashcroft Let me preface my comments with a few statements. I am Mormon....

November 07, 2015

Why Didn’t We Do This By Common Consent?

Reactions to the recent church policy changes concerning the children of married homosexual couples (which...

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

125 Years of the Manifesto – and an overlooked change in Mormon scripture

“It seemed to me to be the awfulest moment in my life," - wrote...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Matt Bowman and Ben Park Talk Seer Stones On RadioWest

For the lucky few vacationing in isolated corners of the world without internet access,...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

The Risks and Revelations of Protest and Lament

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave voice to the unspeakable injustice of American slavery...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

“The Prophecy of This Book”

Believers in the Book of Mormon are inevitably acquainted with Revelation 22:18-19: For I testify...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Doubting at Zion’s Gate

Through happenstance, two of my recent reads synergistically centered on doubt and the thresholds of...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

What do we mean by “Another Testament”?

Before 1981, the Book of Mormon was simply the Book of Mormon; since then, however,...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

The Restoration and War

Written on Memorial Day, 2014 This is my first Memorial Day home after...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

No More Strangers

One of my most familiar childhood religious memories is waking up at the end of...

March 22, 2014

Ordaining Women Is Not Going Away for LDS

The issue of women’s ordination in the LDS church is at least in its fourth...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

Expanding Our Languages of Religious Experience

“I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Why LDS Women Will Not Be Ordained to the Priesthood

Over the last year, a small but growing movement within the LDS church has emerged...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

“Matt and Me (But Mostly Me)”*: A Conversation about _The Book of Mormon_ on Broadway

The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and...

January 2013

January 16, 2013

Why I Pray

Last August I discovered a little cancer in my eye, ocular melanoma. For a week...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Pants, Doctrine, and Culture, and Why Maybe We Shouldn’t Worry

And the Mormon Moment grabs the spotlight again- with Pantspocalypse! A nutshell attempt: Mormon feminist...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Bearing the Burden of Testimony

John Turner, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University, has had a very...

October 08, 2012

One Miracle at a Time

While it may seem like small news that the LDS Church's rules for women's missionary...